Pope Francis spent a restful first day after abdominal surgery and his post-operative recovery was proceeding as expected, with bloodwork and respiratory levels stable, the Vatican said on Thursday.
The 86-year-old pope is on a liquid diet and was well enough to receive communion and make a telephone call, said the statement, the second medical bulletin of the day.
He telephoned the mother of a boy he had baptized in the hospital's children's ward last year to thank her for a get-well poster the family had sent him, the Vatican said. Francis has two trips planned for this summer, to Portugal Aug. 2-6 to attend the World Youth Day and visit the Shrine of Fatima, and to Mongolia Aug. 31-Sept. 4, one of the more remote places he has had on his travel schedule.
The Vatican said all of the pope's private and general audiences had been cancelled until June 18 as a precautionary measure. Alfieri said the pope's condition was causing painful, intestinal occlusions that were becoming more frequent.
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